"Quake" hits eight points on the Richter scale it is a disaster novel of epic proportions that will have listeners thinking twice about their next trip to New York City.

"Quake" is the sort of disaster novel that has become the mainstay of the SyFy Channel. In it, Manhattan and its boroughs become the epicenter of terror as fault lines wreak havoc on the city. Terrorists, floods, blackouts, and hurricanes add to the destruction. Bridges and skyscrapers collapse, and the nightmare begins.

Amid the chaos, FBI agent Hector Mendoza is trying to reunite with his wife and assistant US Attorney Nick Dykstra is trying to find his college student daughter. Meanwhile, the Indian Point nuclear power plant, just forty miles north, is compromised, and a deadly cloud of radiation is drifting toward densely populated areas. Even the subways aren t deep enough to get away from the menacing conditions above ground."

Sometimes the worst storms aren t from Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren t the ones in our heads.

Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters starts appearing on the world s news networks. As both the real world and the cyberworld come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, turning it into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems.

Anyone who enjoys insightful, cutting-edge fiction mixed with action and adventure won t want to miss "CyberStorm."

The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season

For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city.

It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan Danimal Hampton and Samurai Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on television, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the Super Bowl Shuffle video the morning after the season s only loss.

Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What s it like to win? What s it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended?

The result is "Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football," a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly it s about being a fan about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful.